This weekend’s Fifth Annual Rock Paper Scissors World Championships have ended, and Brit Bob Cooper has come out a winner. The Toronto event drew a reported 500 competitors and 250 spectators from 26 U.S. States, four Canadian provinces, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Wales, the UK and Ireland and paid a top prize of CAN$7000.
“I went [...]

Posted November 12, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: Bob Cooper, competition, Jason Simmons, Master Roshambollah, paper, rock, rock paper scissors, rps, scissors, sport, sports, tournament, World Championship. Be the first one.

God bless William Faulkner for pointing it out:
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Posted March 12, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: food, paper, quote, supplies, tobacco, tools of the trade, whisky, William Faulkner, writer, writing. 2 Comments.

Between the MIT show and Microsoft’s vaporware, origami is back in a big way. Here’s drumsnwhistles answer: a very crisp green shirt.
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Posted March 10, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: crisp, crisp shirt, green, origami, origami shirt, paper, shirt. Be the first one.

Ryan Eby and MAKE magazine alerted me to MIT’s student origami exhibit, in which Jason Ku’s ringwraith won the Best Original Model prize, and Brian Chan’s beaver — the MIT mascot — got special attention from the MIT News Office.

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Posted March 8, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Photoblog. Tags: beaver, competition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mit, nazgul, origami, paper, ringwraith. 5 Comments.

Posted on the wall in Tom’s Peacock Bar in Corvallis was a mystery: a notice of a rock paper scissors tournament. A visit to the USA Rock Paper Scissors League’s website proved more confusing. Take the first news release as an example:
Rocky Balboa is stepping back into the ring for his final comeback, as production [...]

Posted March 4, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: A&E, bar challenge, bud light, girls of rock paper scissors, gratuitous sex, league, paper, rock, rock paper scissors, rps, scissors, sport, sports, tournament, usarps. Be the first one.

A visit to The Paper House will run $1.50 and takes you out to a beautiful corner of the Massachusetts coast, 52 Pigeon Hill Street Rockport, MA 01966, just up the hill from Pigeon Cove. Call (978) 546-2629 if you’ve got questions. More info at Odd New England.
Pictures tell quite a story, so [...]

Posted November 3, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Travel. Tags: massachusetts, newspaper, paper, paper house, rockport, rockport ma, weird passion, weird travel. One Comment.

Along with the energy saving and water saving tips previously, our physical plant folks have sent out these recycling tips:
Recycling of Aluminum Cans — saves 95% of the Energy required to make the same amount of Aluminum from its virgin source.

One ton of recycled Aluminum saves 14,000 KWH of Energy, 40 barrels of oil, 238 [...]

Posted September 22, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: aluminum cans, cans, conservation, energy conservation, glass, green living, limiting waste, office paper, paper, paper recycling, plastic, recycle, recycling aluminum, recycling glass, recycling paper, recycling plastic, recycling tips, recylcing, tips, tips for better living. 5 Comments.